I don't think people forget what he was in for. Just that, as Nejde said, he paid his dues and now he is just ridiculous. Luckily he doesn't have any kind of platform these days.
Burzum is largely irrelevant today. Varg has become a parody of himself and even nazis don't take him seriously. I still won't give him any money but at least he's such a sorry fuck that he can't really hurt any1 or cause damage
Start your weekend by listening to The Agonist. After teasing it, the Canadian metalcore/melodic death metal band has released a lyric video for a new song from their upcoming album featuring new Greek vocalist Vicky Psarakis. The song's name is "Disconnect Me" and you can listen to it below. With their former vocalist Alissa White-Gluz now in Arch Enemy, how do you like Vicky Psarakis and this new material from the group?
This new single will be on sale at iTunes on April 28th (Europe) and April 29th (US).
Yup. The Agonist are going to be just fine. Her growls are almost spot on like Alissa's (so much so I'd think it was still Alissa growling if I didn't know about the vocalist change). Her cleans are good too, granted I prefer Alissa's clean singing because hers are way more unique, but Vicky's are good enough.
All in all it seems The Agonist are still on track to having a better future than Arch Enemy, especially now that they have the drama/publicity of this whole vocalist change to help bring them more attention and more fans.
The songwriting on this sounds a lot more bland than I recall The Agonist usually sounding. I remember enjoying Prisoners and Lullabies For The Dormant Mind, but I guess I should try listening to them again to see if that still holds true. Ignoring The Agonist's past, I'd say this song is dull, uninteresting, uninspired, and pretty generic sounding.
The songwriting on this sounds a lot more bland than I recall The Agonist usually sounding. I remember enjoying Prisoners and Lullabies For The Dormant Mind, but I guess I should try listening to them again to see if that still holds true. Ignoring The Agonist's past, I'd say this song is dull, uninteresting, uninspired, and pretty generic sounding.
And these clean vocals are out of place for such music.
Funny enough, this is the first song from The Agonist I liked. The main reason I hated The Agonist before was because Alyssa is an awful vocalist, IMO. Loving the vocals here.
Nothing I've ever heard from this band has been even remotely enjoyable. And this isn't much different. And what are the odds that they were able to find another female vocalist with cleans as pitchy as Alissa's?
Its not bad, its not great, rather monotonous at times i thought her "thank you pain" was better than this but hey, maybe they gave us the crappy one so its all up hill from here? (though i highly doubt that) I really liked the guitar work at the end and wished it were louder throughout (maybe they toned it back to give vicky the spotlight but wrong move imo) but the lyrics were just so so. nothing new to see here.
Dunno about those others as I've never heard of them.
You're not missing anything. Lol.
-Asking Alexandria is Metalcore with heavy trance sequences (also dubbed "trancecore").
-iwabo (or iwrestledabearonce) is a rather stupid, chaotic blend of Metalcore, jazz, lounge and screamo. And their motto is "metal just got gay".
-Black Veil Brides plays Metalcore with heavy Glam influence (also dubbed "glamcore").
As much as I like Alissa, I don't blame the guys in The Agonist for, allegedly, kicking her out.
It seemed Alissa was committing more time into other projects (touring with Kamelot) than committing to her own band.
That said, of course individuals are allowed to have other projects, why shouldn't they?
However, Alissa stated that she would have managed to maintain her status in both bands at once, except her former band weren't having any of it.
Let's face it, Arch Enemy are a fairly big band: they tour constantly, and so, in return, would require the majority of Alissa's time.
Meaning, unless The Agonist became AE's supporting act, the guys in The Agonist would have to wait around for Alissa to give them her secondary attention. Of course they wouldn't stand for that.
Both parties will prove better off doing their own thing: AE and Alissa, and The Agonist and Vicky, whom, might I add, has an exceptional clean vocal style. I'm looking forward to The Agonist's future more so than AE's, now.